Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/universo

Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles – including their recent single for Afterlife, “The Mirage”, which earned more than five million views on Instagram – to remixing The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”, which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now – their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label. It’s a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense.

Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualised around their ‘personal universo’, a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo – it’s full of personality, vim and vigour, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised – there’s a whole lot more going on here, and it’s all equally compelling.

After a typically poetic opening gesture – the swirling, synaesthetic, self-titled intro track – expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of “Fallin’”, sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early ‘00s UK garage. “Interstellar Cowboy” is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of “Liquid Fantasy” spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?’s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of “Poison”; “Dream Vision” revisits their single “The Mirage”, soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; “Part Of Life” sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp.

This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like “Ciao”, into even starker relief – they’re more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can’t get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno: Agents Of Time in excelsis.

Universo

Agents Of Time - Interstellar Cowboy

Agents Of Time - Fallin Feat. Audrey Janssens

(Unreleased)Mathame - Stay Here (For a Little While)

I Can't Save You

Jono Stephenson - I Can't Save You (Original Mix)

Joris Voorn Nathan Nicholson - You I (Extended Mix)

ALBUM TOUR DATES: www.innellea.com/tour-dates/
Vinyl / Stream: innellea.ffm.to/the_belonging

My debut Album "THE BELONGING" is out now. A collective experienced catharsis. The process of releasing, and providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

As personal crises are part of life, we want to go through this journey collectively, from a silent, burned out state of ‘Where do we belong?’ Together, we will go forward forever through all the insanity until the certainty that ‘We belong here!’ as each track charts a step away from crisis, towards this feeling of belonging.

Innellea & Yubik - Tårar feat. Karin Park (ALBUM OUT NOW)

Innellea & CamelPhat - Shelter feat. Monolink (ALBUM OUT NOW)

Feeling

Stream / Download: https://lnk.to/Healing-EP

Melodic techno heavyweight Stephan Bodzin makes his Simulate debut alongside label curator Massano with the 10th instalment of the Simulate story, ‘Healing’.  This EP is comprised of 2 diverse tracks that delve into the depths of synthesis and have been lighting up dance floors around the world.  

Side A ‘Healing’ showcases Bodzin & Massano's mastery of synthesis, driving melodic rhythm & an epic vocal by the incredibly talented Jem Cooke, solidifying this track as a key moment in the Simulate timeline.

Simulate 
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Massano 
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Stephan Bodzin
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Jem Cooke
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Download / Stream

Massano & Stephan Bodzin & Jem Cooke - Healing [Extended Mix]

Internal

Adam Sellouk , Paradoks - Internal (Original Mix)

M.in & Steffen Kopp deliver Heartbeat Symphony on Music is the Answer’s 18th release — a four-tracker tailored for the club.

From the deep pulse of the title track to the uplifting Finding Love, the rhythmic flow of Right Love, Right Time, and the raw bounce of The Aaah Groove, this EP brings variety without losing the focus.

Strictly limited vinyl. No digital. For selectors only.

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M.in & Steffen Kopp - Finding Love

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